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<span class="top">The Book of Amos</span><HR NOSHADE>
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<td class="v">2:1</td>
<td>Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:</td>
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<td class="v">2:2</td>
<td>But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:</td>
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<td class="v">2:3</td>
<td>And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">2:4</td>
<td>Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:</td>
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<td class="v">2:5</td>
<td>But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.</td>
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<td class="v">2:6</td>
<td>Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;</td>
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<td class="v">2:7</td>
<td>That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:</td>
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<td class="v">2:8</td>
<td>And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.</td>
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<td class="v">2:9</td>
<td>Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.</td>
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<td class="v">2:10</td>
<td>Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.</td>
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<td class="v">2:11</td>
<td>And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">2:12</td>
<td>But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.</td>
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<td class="v">2:13</td>
<td>Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.</td>
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<td class="v">2:14</td>
<td>Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:</td>
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<td class="v">2:15</td>
<td>Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.</td>
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<td class="v">2:16</td>
<td>And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.</td>
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